.TH PCRE_FULLINFO 3
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <pcre.h>
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.SM
.B int pcre_fullinfo(const pcre *\fIcode\fP, "const pcre_extra *\fIextra\fP,"
.ti +5n
.B int \fIwhat\fP, void *\fIwhere\fP);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This function returns information about a compiled pattern. Its arguments are:
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\fIcode\fP Compiled regular expression
\fIextra\fP Result of \fBpcre_study()\fP or NULL
\fIwhat\fP What information is required
\fIwhere\fP Where to put the information
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The following information is available:
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PCRE_INFO_BACKREFMAX Number of highest back reference
PCRE_INFO_CAPTURECOUNT Number of capturing subpatterns
PCRE_INFO_DEFAULT_TABLES Pointer to default tables
PCRE_INFO_FIRSTBYTE Fixed first byte for a match, or
-1 for start of string
or after newline, or
-2 otherwise
PCRE_INFO_FIRSTTABLE Table of first bytes (after studying)
PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED Return 1 if (?J) or (?-J) was used
PCRE_INFO_LASTLITERAL Literal last byte required
PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT Number of named subpatterns
PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE Size of name table entry
PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE Pointer to name table
PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL Return 1 if partial matching can be tried
PCRE_INFO_OPTIONS Option bits used for compilation
PCRE_INFO_SIZE Size of compiled pattern
PCRE_INFO_STUDYSIZE Size of study data
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The yield of the function is zero on success or:
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PCRE_ERROR_NULL the argument \fIcode\fP was NULL
the argument \fIwhere\fP was NULL
PCRE_ERROR_BADMAGIC the "magic number" was not found
PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION the value of \fIwhat\fP was invalid
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There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the
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\fBpcreapi\fP
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page and a description of the POSIX API in the
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\fBpcreposix\fP
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page.